Sidney Poitier
23) Ghost dad
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Elliot Hopper, an overworked widower killed in a taxi accident, returns as a ghost and must learn how to be seen and heard so he can take care of his family.
27) Paris blues
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Two American jazz musicians living in Paris fall in love with two girls on vacation from America. They must decide whether to stay in Paris for their music careers, or move back to America for love.
28) No way out
Series
Fox film noir volume 13
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When a young African-American doctor operates on two white brothers brought in for gunshot wounds, it sets off a chain of violent confrontations between a vicious psychopath, his gang and the black community. Includes original theatrical trailer.
29) Sneakers
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
When computer expert Martin Bishop and his team of renegade hackers are blackmailed into carrying out a covert operation to recover a mysterious black box, they discover factions from all sides are willing to kill for it.
30) Shoot to kill
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A city cop and a wilderness expert team up to capture a psychopathic thief and murderer who has escaped to the wild.
31) Brother John
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
John Kane left his home in Alabama when he was sixteen years-old. There is no way to reach him yet whenever there is a death in the family, he knows to return home. This time he returns to his sister's deathbed. His mysterious appearance stirs the interest of the townsfolk, some thinking he is a Communist agitator, others thinking he is magical, and still others thinking he is a criminal.
32) A patch of blue
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Accidentally blinded as a child, 18-year-old Selina D'Arcey falls in love with a gentle and charming man, Gordon Ralfe, whom she meets in a rare visit to a park. Her racist mother declares that because Gordon is black, their relationship cannot continue, forcing Selina to choose between her family and her heart.
33) Sneakers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen edition, collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
A thriller about five computer hackers with questionable pasts and an equally questionable government job.
34) Little Nikita
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A teenager's life is on the line when he discovers his All-American parents are Soviet spies in this taut espionage thriller. With excellent performances from a top-notch cast, Little Nikita is a fast-paced suspense thriller in the tradition of classic Hitchcock.
36) The long ships
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
The film feature the adventure of Viking battling Moors for fabled treasures.
39) For love of Ivy
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A wealthy family, afraid of losing their housekeeper to a secretarial career, fix her up with a man-about-town, who is secretly involved in illegal gambling.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1140
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
With his rousingly entertaining directorial debut, Sidney Poitier helped rewrite the history of the western, bringing Black heroes to a genre in which they had always been sorely underrepresented. Combining boisterous buddy comedy with blistering, Black Power-era political fury, Poitier and a marvelously mischievous Harry Belafonte star as a tough and taciturn wagon master and an unscrupulous, pistol-packing "preacher," who join forces to take on...
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